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I ' ^ *" ' * *joa- ->' "***>- *??*W />.*-.-a** ^n? ?-- vo^> -fV~r g' > i IM li^Mit**< | I 11 li rfWTi'll' IMI lbwis M.3EIST, proprietor.I |,n |nl)epentrenf Jfamil]} ftefospaper: Jcr % $romotion of tjje political, Social, Agricultural anb Commercial Interests of tjje Sonijj. (m8amm,A^^<^,VA*CE' YOLUME III. YORKYILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1866. NUMBER 14. ? ' Sttetefo foetrg. j r From the Carolina Times. JEFFEBSON DAVIS. bv fanny downing. You may fasten his feet with fetters. You may chain him close in his cell? You may mock him, and taunt and torture, Lika the fiend*, you follow in hell. You may shed on his quivering eve-balls The glare of the hateftil lamp? You may banish sleep front his pillow v * With your sentry's ceaseless tramp. You may starve with a mental famine. His mind, which supreme has shone? You mav stifle the cravings of nature Till thought, tottering, reels on her throne. \ But you xcvek can fetter his spirit, It rises above your control; Your iron may rust on bis bojj^ It will never enter his soulI That was made in God's own bright image Alia SUUUpvu W1U1 a puijjvac uigu , It tower* in its might above you As the Eagle soars over the fly! No malice of yours can insult him? Your touch cannot sully lus fame, When Pilate had scourged Ills captive, We know with which rested the shame! Feeble and faint and fettered, A tone from his voiceless mouth Upheaves, and fastens close round him Each heart-string that beats in the South. To him an immortal glory ! To vou through all time be hurled Contempt ana a scorn undying, The hiss of the civilized world ! % StltdA jlkftjr. THE TORN BILL. It waa in the spring of 1864 that the incidents which I am abont to relate occurred. I was at that time postmaster in the town of L . An nnnsualiy warm spell of weath er had oarried away much ot the snow, left the roads very muddy, and rendered the travelling very bad. I thought of this as I olosed the shutters about 9 o'clock in the evening, and also remembered that, as it was Wednesday, the stage from C was due at 8, but owing to the bad going it was not yet in. I therefore determined that 1 would, as I bad often done before, lock the front door between the inner aod outer rooms, and, leaving a light burning, go to sleep, trusting to the driver to wake me by rattling the door. It seemed but a few moments, so soundly had I slept, ere I awakened by a pounding ou the door. Glancing at the clock, which stood opposite, I discovered, however, that it was one o'clock in the morniDg, and that I had been asleep nearly four hours. As I hurried toward the door, I pat my band into my pocket for the key and found it was empty. The two door-keys and both the keys of my safe, all of which I had when I went to sleep, were gone Stepping to a rear door, in the lock of which I always kept the hey, 1 also found mat iocxea ana tae key gone. This so surprised me that for a few seconds I remained on the spot, utterly unable to solve the mystery. From this state I was aroused by reuewed pounding on the door. There was but one available mode of exit from my prison, and thai was thiough a side window. Throwing up the sash I sprang out and hurried round to where i expected to find the driver. Mysteries seem ed to have no end, for instead of meetiog the driver, I came upon an excited crowd of about twenty. My appearance was the signal for all to commence telling me the ? oause of their excitement. Silence was, however, at last obtained, and then the sheriff told me in as few words as possible the jtate of affairs. It seems that one of the physioians of the town, Dr. Smith, was returning from a prolonged visit to a patient, and when about a mile from the town heard in the road ahead v.-_ _ D ;? Oi mm a pisiui suui uuujiug uu, uc found about half a mile further on the stage, for which I was waiting, drawn up by the side of the road, and in the middle of the road the body of a man. Bringing his lantern near the face be found 'that it was the driver, and that be was dead, having been shot through the head He found the robes, &o., of the team scattered around on the ground, as was also the mail bag, but the latter had been unlocked not cut open, and the ooutents were gone. He lifted the body up and placed it in the stage, and was just starting on for assistance, when he saw a revolver lying near by, which, from the faot that one barrel had been discharged, he decided was the weapon with which the deed bad been committed. Arrived in town he aroused the Sheriff and a few neighbors; and while some were dispatched with the Dootor after the body, the Sheriff and others had gone to my bouse after me. Finding I was not there, they came to the ofEoe and just as I joined them the body arrived This was the substance of the facts rela ted to me. It seemed straDge that the sheriff should have gone to my house instead of after the body, and I was about to express j myself, when he stepped forward, and, laying bis hand npon my shoulder, said : "I arrest you, John Blanchard, for the J murler of Charles Smith, 9tage driver." If he should have struck me I should not j have been more surprised. I tried to reason i with him, but although very civil, he was | equally firm, and the result was that I spent j the remainder of the night in the county jail, whioh building was situated in L ,1 that being the shire town. The oxamination the next morning elicited the following ourions facts: When the Sheriff searched my person he was surprised to find no keys, and indeed no wallet, or memorandum book. Sending to my assistant, he obtained the door keys, but the safe keys oould not be found, and my olerk declared^ that I always carried them with me. Upon entering they found ; that all the letters were gone, the money ' drawer empty and a few stamps, which the olerk informed them we always left out of the safe at night, missing And no trace could be found of the safe kpys. Supposing that I bad disposed of them in order that the traoe of my guilt, which it was taken i for granted I had concealed in the safe,' could not be discovered, they broaght a locksmith, and after much labor forced the lock. This labor served only to show them that the safe bad been completely .rifled, and that the sam of three thousand dollars, whioh had been in it the night before, was gone. I found that the oauses which led to sus picion being fastened upon me were the three following: First, the revolver with whioh the deed was committed had upon the butt a silver plate, on whioh was engraved my name.? The clerk took oath that the weapon was mine, and that I always kept it in the office. When they produced it I could not doubt for a moment that it did belong to me.? Seoond, that the bag was unlocked and not n V* Am! nra 1* mtiof knnn Kaon V>ut upcUj DUUWiup, buau lb uiuov.uKie i/ovu done by some one having in bis possession a United States mail key. Third, that I bad not been at home during the evening, and that when summoned at the post office I delayed so long in making my appearance. To combat these facts I argued that the state of the office proved oonolusively that it had been robbed; and that without doubt the keys and revolver had been taken at that time. Also, that no trace of any of the stolen articles was found about me, my house, or my office; and that further if I bad desired to rob the mail I might have J waited until it had arrived at the office, and thus saved myself the crime of murder.? Against the third statement I told the reason of my remaining in the offioe so late, and brought forward witnesses to prove that I often did so on Wednesday evenings, in order that the mail might be delayed as little as possible. Further, that the reason of my remaining so long in the office was that I could not open the door, and brought forward the fact that the keys were missing, to sustain my declaration. Although these arguments were.by no means fully satisfactory to those who took the ground that I was guilty, still they were so far that I was released on bail of five thous snd dollars, which I readily obtained. By consent of the Post Office Department, I turned the affairs of the office over to my assistant I was thus left free to pursue every means to prove my innocence, which I felt could only be done by discovering the guilty party. I accordingly placed the best detectives at work, with orders to communicate to me the first suspicion that they entertained, for I found that it was anything but com- i fortable to be looked upon as a murderer, although I knew that I was innocent. i Thus three weeks passed without any. thing of interest occurring, and at the end of that time I oould endure the suspense no longer. Therefore, I wrote to and old friend of mine, who wa3 then on the detective force of P , at L , and together we set ahout the search. A week passed without bringing more to light, and oausing us to despond, for we feared the murderer had so covered his traok if rrnnlr? ha imrvncciKlo tn dionnOAf him lb nuuiu t uj uoo ii/iv iv uiovu* v? uiui.? We had been at work two days in the city of G , and being abont to leave, I entered the hotel office to settle. Having no ' small bills, there was considerable change handed baok, and among it a ten dollar bill, which had been torn in two. As I turned it carelessly over I fonnd that the parts had been -fastened together with the margin of a couple of postage-stamps, which 1 bad printed upon it "No. 15?Plate," bat the "No." and "Plate" had been crossed 1 out, and substituted iu their place, was "Mar " and "1864," making it read "Mar. I 15?1864," which was the day before the < robbery and murder. This may seem all i common enough, but to me it was a ray of 1 light and hope; for the change was in my I owd hand writing. I also remembered per* I fcctly well making the change; also, that I i had placed my initials on the nnJerside, and that the bill must have been in the ( safe at the time of the robbery. Calling my friend, we went into a side room, and i there carefully removed the paper. On the 1 . .. j j? 1 t 1 .1 - uoaer siac we aiscoverea, as i naa expected, the letters, "J. B." much blurred from wettiDg, but still legible. My friend agreed with me that it was a very important discovery, and in order to press it forward, we called in the landlord and questioned him. He remembered having received the bill 1 that morning, and had rather questioned taking it on account of the tear. On being asked to describe the man, he said : "As near as I recollect, he was about five feet ten inches in height, and quite stout in proportion. He was dressed entirely in black. The only peculiar mark that I noticed was a deep scar running across his face, and his left eye was gone?the place being supplied by a piece of black silk, which he showed very plainly when he winked." I think I must have started very peroeptibly when I heard this description, for I j recognized the man immediately as a run- | ner for the firm of Bagley &Nason, of Boston, who had been in our town for about a week previous to the murder, and had left the same morning. His own name was ! Jus. Bumbam. As we oould learn nothing more from the landlord, save that be ordered the haekman to drive to the Boston depot, we dismissed him and held a consultation. We both agreed that it was best to go immediately to Bos ton, see, Bagley & Nason, and, if possible, learu of Burnharu's whereabouts. Carrying out this plan, we learned from the firm the following facts: James Burnham was a good, reliable business man. He had been in their employment for about fifteen years, and they were willing to trust him with any amount of their funds. He was now in Vermont, where he had been sinoe leaving L , and had ! not to their certain knowledge, been atI G . This rather perplexed us, but at last we determined that be must have deceived his employers; aod although we did not think that we had sufficient cause to arrest him, still we determined to track him. For this purpose we went to Vermont and fell in with him at Montpelier. For a week we observed his every motion, bat at the end of that time had discovered nothing, save that he would stay in the town about one week longer. Feeling that my friend was fully capable of watohing him alone, I determined to go to Boston to see if I conld learn anything new j and accordingly on tne morning of the 21st of April left, having first arranged a system of oypher, by which we could communicate with each other if ocoasion required it Early on the morning of the 22d, I was standing on the steps of the Hotel, when a paper dropped at my feet; apparently from one of the upper windows. Stooping down I picked it up, but discovered that it was but an empty envelope, and was * - a i A. aDOUt 10 arop 11 again, woeo tue name upon it caught my eye. It was that of a leading merchant of L . Looking op at the window, I saw to my surprise the face of James Buroham, and that he tamed deadly pale when he saw me. Feeling certain now that he knew my errand, I saw that it would be safe to let him escape me no longer. I immediately determined on having him arrested at all hazards. Hnrriedly writing a dispatch which to the operator would read, "Join me in Portland to morrow. Immediately upon the receipt of this you may close the bargain whioh I spoke to you about yesterday;" bat to my friend. "James Barnham is in Boston. Why are you not? I have a clue Shall arrest him immediately." I sent it to the telegraph offioe,and then hurried to the police station. Here I told my Btory in as few words as possible; and in fifteen minutes more was at the v.oor of the room from whioh the envelope had come. A noise as of some one moving rapidly about told us that the oocapant was still there. The door of the room was not fastened, but as the officers approached, Barnham sprang forward tn do so : bat thev were too auick .w. ? j A for him and had entered before he oonid get it done. As we came in he stepped baok and in no gentle tones demanded the cause of the intrusion. In answer to him, one of the officers said: "I arrest you, James Burnham, for the murder of Charles Smith and the robbery of the Post Office at L , od the night of the 16th of March last." The effect was instantaneous. He turned deadly pale and sank into a chair near by, but after a moment roused himself and said : "You have mistaken your man. My name is not James Burnham, but William Chase." , We considered this, however, as but an attempt to bully us, and he was accordingly led away. The search whioh followed brought to light considerable money in bills, and a number of oheoks, many of them payable to certain merchants in L , payable to persons living in Boston. I immediately telegraphed the particulars of the arrest to my friend, and he joioed ( me the next morning; but strangest of all, < James Bumham came with him, and then I saw that it was a case of mistaken identi- ( ty. But it was not to be wondered at, for I think I never saw two men look more alike. We also telegraphed to the landlord at G , and learned a thing we had neglected before, namely, that the man who passed * the torn bill went by the name of William Chase. Little more remains to be told. The man Ending there was no hopes for him, made sonfession soon after his arrest. From this i J .1.i i it appe&reu mat uo waoa uutunuua uriuiiuai, who after some bold deed, had been lying for a time in the oountry, and that while there accidentally hearing that valuable mail matter would arrive in the mail from C , bad determined on a little professional business, and had accordingly came to L . There he saw me receive a large payment of money on the 14th of March; and had that evening, after I shut up, entered the office, and removing the keys from my pooket, and getting possession of the revolver, robbed me as described, and made off with , the booty, still retaining the keys, which , we found in his possession. From the of { fice he had gone up the road, met the stage, and finding that he could not accomplish , his purpose without committing the murder, and .en opening the bag, had just time to secrete himself, when the dootorcame along , By a wide circuit, he oame baok to Boston, and arrived there by another train on the Bame evening that I did. When 1 picked j nn the envelone. he recocrnized me. and! r r/ o ' made up his mind that he had better leave, , and was preparing to when arrested. A few days more, saw me baok to L , my innocence fully established, but I could not be prevailed upon again to assume the i duties of post master, and my former assistant was appointed. As for William Chase, he was executed the following July. inn A New Explosive Compound.?An- ! other explosive compound, more destructive than nitro-glycerine, has been brought to 1 light. This chemioal mixture is called so- 1 dium amalgam. It is never manufactured in large quantities, though it has been advertised for sale in San Francisco, one firm rtlolminrr fn Viooo mnnh oa ftrn htinrlrAf) VIHIUJ1U0 VV UUf V ? ? UiUVU WU l/TT V WVt ounces for sale. The amount is not large, ! but when it is understood that the explosive power of one ounce of sodium is equal to that of about twenty-five pounds of gunpowder, or two and a half pounds of nitroglycerine, it can readily be conceived that : even fifteen or twenty ounoes exploded in one place would create immense havoo.? And when one further reflects that even so little a thing as a spoonful of water coming in oontact with two hundred ounces of sodium would cause an explosion equal to that whioh would be occasioned by the ignition of 5,000 pounds of powder, or the oonoussion of 500 pounds of nitro-glycerine, we can form some conception of its tremendous destructive power. gjforellinteflfls. I 8 Thad. Stevens Volunteers to Defend t Mr. Davis. t Our readers will ask whether the state- a meat made in the following is true, or that i it is one of the many biting saroasms that t frequently flow from t he pen of the editor t of the Richmond Timet. We oertainly t do not know, but we extract from that paper : It is reported, on the best authority, that old Tbad Stevens has written a lettev to the Hon. Wm. B. Reed, of Philadelphia, i Tt u.-i volunteering to aerenu ex-r resilient uavis in bis approaobing trial. We certainly oould Dot more astound our readers were n we to inform them that tbe devil had turned a minister, or tbafc he had given up bis buni- 1 ness and was killing himself off with drink. t< Still it is perfectly consistent with Thad.'s ? theory about the war, formed, doubtless, as t! he gazed on the melanoholy spectacle of r his burnt mills and saw that huge undershot water-wheel revolving all alone in its ii glory, to show where bis foundry had been. He then came to the conclusion that Mr. Davis was the head of an undoubted belligerent power and consequently a die facto j government. Having overthrown that government and overrun the oountry, Mr. j, Stevens insists that the United States have t; a right to disposeof the lands and property t| of the conquered country after the fashion s of William tbe Norman. He wants not t| their blood, but their substanoe. Mr Da- w vis, according to his theory, was no more c guilty of treason than Harold, the Saxon g K.ing, who tell at Hastings. Hence tms e offer of bis valuable services in tbe trial is j( Dot at all at variaooe witb his previous course ^ during tbe present session. What tbe effect of this new development ^ may bave on Underwood, we oannot imag* ioe. Were -it possible for that jurist to lose bis mind, he would undoubtedly go orazy. Witb Stevens as leading oouosel Q For the defence, Greely as Mr. Davis' bail, and in all probability Wendell Phillips as j( foreman of the jury, (for Congress will j( doubtless pass a law for the purpose,) think a of Underwood's feelings. This may be tbe 9 turning point in Stevens' career. a "As long as th? lamp holds out to bum, The vilest sinner may return." We may be allowed, however, in his case," 8 to doubt if there will be any rejoicing ^ among angels. 1 This tender of his services may be a bid ^ for popularity?an extraordinary parade of P liberality?or it may be one of those mental n aberrations preliminary to suicide, which ^ genius of the Black Republican stamp, in 11 its fitful flights, seems of late to be subject 11 to?e g., in Preston King and James H 0 Lane, of Kansas. 1 It may be possible that Thad. sees the 8 famous hand writing on the wall, and finds ri that there is trouble brewing, that the faith- P ful are going to desert him, and wishes to 0 get the start of them and go over to the enemy first. Or, it may be, t'aat after all 8i Thad.'s radicalism is like that of a good t( many others, only lasting while they are a out of office and power, and completely ex- d piring on their gaining the coveted position 0 among the "ins." Thad. has undoubtedly 0 got the United States Senatorship from Pennsylvania secure, and evidently has tl aspirations for the Presidency, and now bis h conservatism oommences to make its ap- p pearance. Seward was a great radical be- o fore he got what he wanted?before he got n into office. Since that period, he has be* c cone quite conservative. There is nothing t< like placing a man in power to make him o conservative, and we would not be much tl surprised were Stevens, who is now striving t< for place and power, to become very conservative when he gets them. This offer n Df - his services to Mr. Reed is a good symp- s] torn, and we hail the improvement. o ?? ?? ?? n Prom the Chester Standard. p Chester, C. H , July, 16, 1866 a In pursuance of a call made to the people, a large body met at the appointed hour, w and James B. McGill, Esq., was called to D the chair, and Maj. J. Mills, requested to 11 act as Secretary. Maj. Eaves, A. B. Brown and others 8< made remarks npon the subject before the '? meeting Dr. T. W. Moore offeied a reso- 11 lution that a committee be appointed to s< draft resolutions for the consideration of | & this bod; and report at once. Whereupon the chair appointed Giles. J j e: Patterson, Esq , Maj. Eaves, Dr. T. W. [ ft Moore, Maj. Jalias Mills, Oapt. 0. Barber, j ei and A. B. Brown, Esq , as oommittee. | b The oommittee withdrew and afterwards j p reported the following : | ti The commmittee appointed to prepare j p and present matter for the consideration of; p this meeting, beg leave to report by preamble and resolutions, as follows : ' y Whereas, The late war has closed, leav-o ing the citizens of this Distriot and the j w South generally, impoverished by the eman- i h cipation of their slaves and the destruction ; c< or their property, and most of our citizens J are involved in debt, not perhaps beyond 01 their ability to pay, if given some reasons- j w ble indulgence. And j tl Whereas, The protection afforded debtors 81 by the law, commonly known as the "Stay ^ Law" has been removed by the aotion ofj the highest jndioial tribnnal of this State; j11 therefore, j * Resolved, That we the people of Chester j * District, determined to abide like good citi- ^ zens, by the laws of the land, bat profound- Vl ly impressed with the hardships, confusisn ^ and disturbances that must neoessarily re Bult from the general and forcible collection of debts at short notice as may now C be done, do respectfully suggest to the * Governor, and through him to the Legisla- tl tare of the State, that some measures be \ taken at once, toarrestif possible, the gen- s] era! and indiscriminate sacrifice of property g at public sales. c Resolved, That we do earnestly recom- n need and would forcibly impress upon the ninds of the citizens of our Distriot, both lebtors and oreditors, that they meet in a 1 pirit of accommodation and forbearance? 1 he debtors paying as they may become able I >y the practice of industry and economy, J ,nd the creditors giving suoh reasonable ' ndulgenoes as may be compatible with c heir pressing necessities?firmly believing j hat the trne interests of both parties will i hus be most surely reached. < Giles J. Patterson, N. R. Eaves, a T W. Moore, i Julius Mills, I 0. Barber, { A. B Brown. j The report was read and offered to the < aeeting. After some consideration the t aine was adopted-. On motion of Dr. * i'hos. W. Moore, the Seoretary was directed i o forward a copy of these resolutions to 1 Tia E.nallannii H-nir Orr ?nrt fr? fnrntMh C *"* ? he Chester Standard with a copy with a J equest to be published. t No other business being before the meet- i 3g a motion was made to adjourn. 1 J. B. McGILL, President. a JOLius Mills, Secretary. c Tegro Progress and Negro, Politeness. ) The 4th of July, last past, was marked, 1 3 Edgefield, by naught save an ezamina- 1 ion and pio-nic among the negroes. If, in * be course of time, the Southern States 8 hall again take their legitimate place in 1 he American Union, then will Southern * rhite people, in all probability, once more * elebrate. the 4th with honor and rejoioing; * t present, however, the day oao bring^ittle 8 lse than sad and bitter memories. As c 3ng as our politioal status remains so de- * rading as now, it were best for us to * bserve the 4th of July as Dean Swift did ) is birthday after he had reached thirty v -alone in a garret, with fasting and 1 rayer. c --1 1 T1J ?.1J : iJ.J 1 rne negro SCllOOJ in r^ageueiu in pretsiucu ver by Lawrence Cain, a young man of wenty-one or two, formerly a slave of Maor Zaok Carwile; be is white in complex3o, genteel in manners; and since becomiog "citizen" has deported himself in a way rhich proves ^hat be has both good sense nd good feelings. He has some fifty-odd cholars, of all ages between sixteen and even, and of all colors, or shades rather, etween ebon blaok and lily white. And bis rats us in mind of the famous and elightful anecdote of old Parson Danelly reaching in Charleston, and being very ouoh struck with the handsome and well ressed mulattoes in the gallery. Addrpssog the white congregation, and pointing 3 the gallery, the terrible and plain spoken Id parson said : "What sort of people are bose? Where did they come from ? I'm re God never made any suoh." Lawenoe Cain has been teaohing most of these upils for six months past, and on Wedesday last he gathered them together, in be pleasant grove around Mrs. Sheppard's I ' - - 4 *!"? ? ftMnimnnnto mirrl\i> Ko nil f I pnugj l/UHl bUCU abMlUUI&UM UAlgUW i/W JIUV ) the proof The parents of the scholars nd the negro community generally, provi- ? ed a combined barbecue and pio nic on tbe ccasion, and the whole affair proved to be r ne of real and peculiar interest. d With good judgment and good feeling . hat does equal credit to their heads and earts, the negroes invited the whites to be resent at their examination and pio nic? r rather, we should say a sufficiently large 1 umber of gentlemen to represent the white a ommunity. And these in their turn at- e ended, evincing an interest in the progress f the scholars, and a kindliness towards 1 heir old servants generally, very gratifying ^ ) every right minded man. But the whites were not invited to be lere lookers on; a separate table was pread for tbem, and each and all partook e f as delightful barbecued meats, and as ' icely prepared sauces, vegetables, cakes, a ies, lemonades and fruits as could reason- ^ h bly be wished for. D Two long and liberally provided tables f 'ere also spread for the blaoks. We are 1! ot very sure however, but that tbe blacks, a 1 their commendable exercise of hospitali- 8 j towards the whites, praoticed considerable ' jlf-denial. And we are sure that the ' fl itter, with their greater abundance of J leans, ought not to forget to return, in ^ ime proper and becoming manner^ this D ratuitous and well meant hospitality. e As to the examination, it revealed wond P rs. Boys and girls, as we have said be- j >re, from seven to sixteen, who six or j ight months ago, knew not a letter in the ^ ook, spelt in four and five syllables, and c ronounoed, and read, and answered ques- f ons in Arithmetic, and said their multi . lioation table, with unerriog readiness and ^ recision. The young man who has taught these . ouog oolored folks deserves a great deal q f credit, and we earnestly hope the means ill be provided bim of still further fitting ? imself for the business he is pursuing so Q smmendably. ^ Had some of the Radicals been present ^ a the oocasion of which we speak, they ould not have believed their senses to see le perfectly good feeling and good underanding between these negroes and their j A nnnnf ?? A Unltfinniofo jrmcr uw ucio. avauui| jo uvuimvuiow ad Freedmen's Bureau men I Your work ^ i the South is to poison the milk of human t| indneas in the breasts of both black and ^ hiie. For the black man's sake, le^ve im alone; for when left alono, he knows ^ sry well who is his true friend.?Edgefield ^ I dvertiser. HM. o Another Rebellion.?The Buffalo 8 lourier, has the following paragraph : c "Gen Grant recently remarked to a gen- d eman of this oity, who met him in the r Vest, that unless the Southern States were 1 peedily admitted to representation in Con- 0 ress and the right of self-government con- y eded to them, we should soon have another ( Bbellion." * E Good Pluck. b A-correspondent, writing all the way a From Texas, tells of the devotion of a young h Southern wife, who acoompanied her hus- a jand on foot from South Carolina to the * Lone Star State, and thought nothing of it. d rhere are not in this section many dames )r damsels who would undertake such a ourney, even though they were sure of findDg the goal of hymenial happiness at the P :nd of it: ? "Some months after the close of the war, ^ i gentleman overtook a well dressed Con- 0 Federate soldier, with a knapsaok on his g jack, acoompanied by a pretty, neat looking 1 jirl, of apparently about eighteen years of C ige, with a bundle in her band. The sol- 0 iier stopped to ask some directions about 11 he road. The gentleman found that he t' vas a Confederate soldier returning home 11 with his wife, and iovited them home with b lim to dinner, as he lived near. The sol- D iier, a fine looking Texan, told his story. * [lis home was on the Naeces. He bad en- ^ ered the army at the first of the war, leav- a Dg a widowed mother and little sister at a iome. He belonged to Johnson's army, h ind bad gone through all the varied fortunes if a soldier, been onee woanded and twioe 11 l prisoner at Camp Chase. In one of bis o: rarious wanderings, he had met. and fallen E n love with the daogbter of a widow in si he Northern part of South Carolina, whose v lusband had fallen at the battle of Manas- t' as. The widow, from competence, found E lerself almost reduced to want. When the d far olosed, our soldier went to the bonse of e; lis intended mother-in-law, and for a month t' vorked with all his might, mendiog fences Q .nd putting the farm in the best order he lonld. Then thinking it time to see about 8 lis old mother fn Southern Texas of whom le had not heard one word for over two a rears, he prepared to return home, but it o fas hard to leave his sweetheart, not know- a ng when he could make money enough to f< iome for her. But she settled the matter tl : -l : :>l l: a a )y anylu 11 huu waa guiug wiui niui. ou uuv norning they were married, and started for N rexas on foot, with their knapsacks on their 1< tacks and withoat a single oent of money. 71 'Bat," said the bride, "we found the people a rery kind, we made friends all along the '< oad ; we were never tarned off at night; d ve always got plenty to eat, and people f( rould often make us little presents of money, d iVe would frequently overtake a wagoner, . rho would give us a ride as far as he was u .a!.. ? - TIT I T A U..o 1 ^Uiug UU1 najr. ?f UOU L tu iuj UUO* mud's borne I shall have travelled two I housaod five hundred miles, and most of it 8 >o foot. I would not take anything in the b vorld for my trip, I have found everybody tl 0 kind and good." D The young husband looked into her n >right young faoe and smiled as though he d hought he saw there the reason every one a rassokind. ai ' But were you not afraid to oome so far vith a wild Texan ?" some one asked. "Oh, nol" was the smiling reply; "I 1 ways liked the Texans, they are suoh . rave, good soldiers." "You have, indeed, proved that you liked me of them After dinner the gentleman had his oar- Q iage brought round and carried them a ^ lay's journey homeward. As I shook bands vith the bride, I wished her a pleasant "Oh, never fear for that," she answered, ^ 'I am almost home?a hundred miles or wo isn't mncb; I am as happy as a king," nd they drove off, the happiest oonple I ^ ver saw. May Heaven bless them Now isn't she a heroine, and do yon think here are many more like her '( I will close uy letter by saying three cheers for the rexan soldier and his Sooth Carolina bride. . si ? ????? n J6F" A wonderful process has been discov red in Paris for preserving bodies, of rhioh a correspondent gives the following t( cooont: "The people of Paris?the lalies iu particular?have always been catenated for the perfection to which they have u arried the art of swathing, painting, adorn- ^ og, and embalming their living bodies; nd great, therefore, is the gratitude in ^ pired by Dr Audigoier for his new invenion, which leaves to these dearly oherished t. L J! 1I4L.!_ .4A 4! 1 J J * iviQg Doaiea an meir auraciiuuo wueu ueuu. ^ I'he very announcement, as made, by M. j Ludiguier in the papers, is sufficient to t( lake those who feel themselves on the wane js zperieoco a yearning for the perfections ^ rith which they are to be endowed in the rave. (No more mutilation/ says the jj )octor, no more catting, no more indisore- ^ ioD, no more manipulation, no more oncer- m linty of result; but the moat entire sue ess insured by the system.' The body may emain entirely dressed ; the man may be ^ Qterred in his habit as he lived. The em- a, aiming liquid is taken into the Btomach, i nd when the deceased has beeD made, as | C( t were, to drink a glass of this precious: jE lizture, the coffin is filled with a vegetable ! owder, of which the doctor keeps the ae- [ 0j ret and the work is done He calls his ! lethod that of ingestion, by way of oppo- j ition to toe oia system or iDjeouon, wnicn 0j as been weighed now for nearly thirty i 0, ears and found wanting. q The operation lasts not more than twenty g linutes, and the corpse will last forever.? tr n two or three months' time it acquires the ; 0( ardness of stone. The experiment has w een tried at Marseilles, in the presence of e, be whole faculty of that plaoe, first on the es ody of a woman already exhibiting symp- c[ 3ms of decay; then upon that of a man : m rho bad died of a general dropsy, there-! jn 3re distended to the highest degree ; and pen that of a young girl who had died of onsumption. All three were placed in a a, ituation as trying as possible to the efficacy ;a if the system, in a damp oellar in the midle of winter, and exposed to the burning ays of the sun daring the summer months. ?he pine wood coffins were of the ordinary: J aake, badly joined, thin and porous. One pi ear afterwards, in the presence of Drs. a Jotte and Braquier, these bodies were found j is tot only in a state of perfect preservation, ti >ut were completely mummified; the/ had seamed the hardness of dried wood or the inrdcst stone. If the system be really vailable, the question arises?when all the rorld becomes mummified, what shall we io with oar mammies ?" Leipsio. Leipsio, which promises onoe more to be rominent in history, is already memorable or its suffering daring the Thirty Years' Var, and the victory of Gostavoe Adoiphos ver Tilly, September 7,1681, whioh wee aided at Breitenfield, and that Timnity. 'he battle of Leipsio, however, was fongnt )otober 16-19, 1818, by the allied troops f Russia, Prussia and Austria, 160,000 aen, under Prince Sohwartienberg, against be Frenoh nnder Napoleon, and stationed o and around Leipsio. The assault was aonn he fha illiM and fmm Q in flia **J HMV HlltVOJ HUM VUi V IM VUU loming to noon of the 16th, the French * 'ere vigorously, but unsuccessfully, usual' ;d. Napoleon then assumed the offensive, od made his favorite movement of a grand ttaok on the enemy's centre. Sehwarteefl' erg ordered up his reserves; Napoleon did ie same; and there was a general engage* lent along the whole line. Murat, in one f his oavalry charges, nearly captured the Imperor of Russia and the King of Prosa, but at that moment the Austrian reseres checked the French advanoe. Daring ie engagement between the main armies, tlucber came up with 60,000 * men, and rove Marmont out of the village of tfookrn. Next day both armies rested, by "mn? lal consent" Napoleon, feeling hia weak* ess, tried to arrange an armistice. On the 18th, with his 160,000 men and 00 pieces of artillery, ho fought the allies, hen reioforced by the Russian reserves, nder Benningseo, and Bernuadotte's army f the North*-300.000 men and 1,400 annon. Against these odds, the French inght with great bravery. On the 19th, ae allies foroed an en trance into the city, it 2 o'clock that day, the battle ceased, lapoleon retreating towards the Rhine, laving 15,000 men aud 23,000 sick and roanded in the hands of the allies, loiog, II told, in three days, 60,000. to the allies' >88 of 50,000. Already weakened by .the iaasters of the Russian campaign, the on)rtunate battle of Leipsio peoipitated the owofall of tbeEmperor. Leipsio is a prominent commercial and niversity city in the Kingdom of Saxony, 29 miles by railway from Berlin, 60 from Iressden, and has a population of about 0,000. The city is rioh in museums, li* raries an i colleges. It is also famous in he bookpnblishiog business, and the anual commercial affairs of Leipsio are the >ost important in Europe. They are attened from all parts of the continent by as iany as 60,000 people, and the transactions mount to $60,000,000 annually. New York World. Do It Well?Whatever yoo do, do it rell. a job slighted because it is apparentj unimportant, leads to habitoal neglect, ) that men degenerate, insensibly, into bad orkmen. - . "That in a good rough job," said a fore>au in our hearing, recently, and he meant Tat it was a piece of work, not elegant in self, bat strongly made and well pot toother. ; . ? .h w, Tiainiog the band and eye to do work roll, leads individuals to form eorreat habits i other respects, and a good workman is, 3 most oases, a good citisen. No one need ope to rise above his present situation who offers small things to pass by unimproved, r who neglects, metaphorically speaking, 3 pick op a cent beoaose it ia not n dollar. Some of the wisest law makers, the beet tatesmen, the most gifted artists, the moat lerciful judges, the most ingenious mehanics, rose from the great mass. A rival of a certain great lawyer sought ) humiliate him publicly by saying: "You blacked my father's boots onoe.?~ "Yes," replied the lawyer, unabashed, and I did it well." And beoaose of doing tean things well, be rose to greater. - Take heart, all who toil! all youths in amble situations, all in advene cktnmances, and those who labor unappreciated, f it be but to drive the plow, do it well; if ha hnf In icor fhrnurl ViT it mil ! if be only to oat bolts, make good ooea; or * blow the bellows, keep the iron hot. It attention to business that lifts the feet igher up on the ladder. Says the good book: "Seest thou a man iligent in his basioess, he shall stand be* ire kings;" he shall not stand befonmean en. ? ?? . Aversion of the Prussians to thx 7ar ?There is great popular disoontent nong the Pras^ian people at the determiition of the government to go to war. A irrespondent of the Paris Tempt says that i traveling through the Rhenish provinces ?Iongiog to Pinssia, he found the prisons, ? ? i T\ 11 J TTT J.I : Uoblentz, i;oiogoe, Lmsseiaorr, nesei, [indcQ aod Munster filled with soldiers of te landwchr, accused of seditions ones or r acts of grave insubordination. Soldiers 1 the way to the army sang songs against ount de Bismark, and even against the !ing. Others shouted out: "The Altaians forever I" without any fear tod the ficers pretended not to hear. The same riter says : "The disoontent is inoreasing rery day. Nearly all the mannfaoturing itablisbments in the province are already osed, or on the point of being so. Comeree is defunct, bankruptcies innumerable: i another week there will be a vast nam3r of workmen out of employment, and ie consequences of such a state of things e easy to foresee. At Berlin the situation similar, with, ^owever, this difference, iat disturbances have already commenced lere." 5??* The New York Herald thinks the Beablicaos are in the melting mood, and, like great field of ice at the approaoh of spring, now splitting and dividing in every direoon.